{i'm in love}

After on the left, before (with Chloe) on the right :)




With my newly recovered chairs :) They are a set with a cute little cafe table on my front porch, and the regular fabric that came on them was not weather friendly or pretty IMO. So, I found an adorable vinyl tablecloth at Kmart (for $3!) and recovered them. I'm so happy with how they turned out. Shabby chic and very girly. :) I think I will use the remaining cloth to make a few pillows for my swing and/or cover the top of the bench I use as a coffee table on the porch.

Some fun and exciting news...my Grandma is moving closer to me in a week! My grandparents lived 5 hours away from me my entire life, and with my Grandpa passing away a few years ago and my Grandma's health failing, she is moving to a nursing home near my parents. I'm sad that she isn't as healthy as she used to be, but she is 93, so that happens. I can't wait to see her and give her a big hug!! :)

Hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!

xoxo

{spring cleaning and new treasures}

Yesterday I did some spring and rearranging in my scrapbook room. It feels so good to walk in there and see a clean floor and desk! I got the cute lamp at an antique shop on Saturday...I painted the wooden parts white and added the cute green shade...$10 for the entire thing!






My organized albums and supplies...I have my stickers and other goodies in labeled binders. I think I need to add a new binder soon though, they are getting very full!

Hope everyone is having a great Monday!!

xoxo

{today}

So today I got some fun things done. I organized my buttons by color....kind of OCD I know. :) But, it looks pretty and makes it much easier when I want to use a certain color.

I made this fun button covered "M" too...I've had it for a long time now and finally decided it would look pretty covered in white buttons. Now I have to decide where it will look best!

My Grandmother recently moved to a nursing home and my parents have been cleaning out her house before it is sold. I'm so lucky and blessed to have these hankerchiefs that are hers, and these milk glass pieces also. I love the big bowl and the little fluted dish below.

This photo is of my Great Grandmother Mattie...she was so pretty! I made this frame using scrapbook paper and a metal clip. I thought it would be fun to be able to change out the photo easily with the clip.

I have beef stew in the crock pot right now and the house smells sooo good. It will be ready in less than an hour...can't wait! Hope everyone is having a relaxing Sunday!

xoxo

{friendship?}

Recent events have me questioning if an internet friendship is really a true friendship. I have been a regular member of a message board now for about five years, and have created some great friendships on there. One of which I really enjoyed and always looked forward to chatting with her. She recently had a baby, and it was so fun to see the progress of her pregnancy, and how she had decorated her nursery. Because of some mean and jealous girls, she was given no choice but to leave the message board (very personal information about her was posted, along with awful statements about her as a person). She has also deleted all of her "friends" from this message board from her myspace page, including me. While I can understand her feelings, I can't help but be hurt that I was included in those that were "cut" out of her online life. We've been chatting since before our weddings, which were a week apart, and I even contributed to her baby shower gift. I guess I need to realize that we aren't true friends, just strangers on a message board. Maybe I'm taking this so hard because I don't have a really close girlfriend in real life. We have exchanged email addresses, but I would be naive to think that we'll really keep in touch. I was so excited to see pictures of her new little girl and hear about what motherhood is like, but I think I will just leave her alone for now and let her enjoy her new family. I guess this just proves that the internet is not the best place to create friendships.

{home*sweet*home}

Some fun random pictures of things I love in our house. The shadow our chandelier makes on teh ceilng at night is so whimsical...I love to sit and look at it. A few pictures of my favorite things in our kitchen...the colorful measuring cups are from Anthropologie. Two of my beloved magazines...Domino and Home Companion. Finally, an update on my stair renovation project...the railing is painted! What a tedious project! Next step is to sand all of those stairs...wish me luck!!

xoxo

{flickr *love*}

Today I went a little crazy browing through the tons of photos on flickr.com...look at this inspiration!!! I love the bright greens and reds agains white walls and that first picture makes me want to paint my living room fireplace and built-ins white asap! The oil cloth cover on the dining room table is genious...so practical and adorable at the same time! The open kitchen shelving is just what we are planning for our kitchen...hopefully ours will look that *cute*!

I'll be posting pics soon of my stairway renovation. I started painting the bannister over the weekend and it looks so good (if I do say so myself ;). I still have quite a bit to do, but I can already tell that it is going to brighten up the hallway.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

xoxo

{I *heart* Etsy}

I've become *quite* obsessed with surfing Etsy lately...and these are my three latest purchases. I can't wait to get this adorable green coffee cozy...so chic and earth friendly :) These headbands are so comfortable and they both reverse to a solid brown fabric which makes them so versatile. I have a bunch more things on my wish list...soon to be mine! Enter Etsy at your own risk...it is addictive!!

xoxo

{brrrrrr}

It's freaking freezing here today! I don't know what the exact temp is, but my hands still haven't warmed up and I've been inside for 20 minutes...ugh. Oh well...other than that it is a good Monday morning. I got some great cleaning and organization done yesterday, as well as some fun scrapbook pages done over the weekend. Here are two of my favorites. Oh...and great news...we're getting over $1,700 back on our taxes...new kitchen here we come!! :) Hope everyone has a fabulous day!!

xoxo

{c'est v-day}

Just wanted to share a fun layout I did last night of our Valentine's Day celebration...had fun using a lot of different products on here...even a real stamp. :)

xoxo

{eye candy}

I just discovered Pop Ink and I'm drooling over these paper goods, cute soaps and plates! I'll take one of each, please!

{finally!}

I finally got some scrapbooking done on Wednesday...Christmas photos and my favorite photo of Liz and I from her wedding. I loooove the new BG Fruitcake papers...so pretty! Thanks for looking!

xoxo

{the best day}

Yesterday was such a perfect day. I woke up to find out that we were under a level 3 snow emergency, which meant no work! So, I made blueberry muffins and enjoyed a relaxing morning. I dragged a ton of my scrapping supplies downstairs and went to town...it felt so good to create again. I finished four layouts of Christmas photos that I've been wanting to get my hands on. *pictures to come soon!*

Dan surprised me with *the* sweetest gift...a small heart shaped box of chocolates. Might not seem like much, but when I was growing up, my Dad always left my sister and I a heart-shaped box of chocolates outside our bedroom door on v-day morning. I told DH that I really missed that...and he must have been listening! :) I made him a card, but wasn't able to get him a gift because of the bad weather. Last night we made our first bellinis and they were soooo good. We made some yummy appetizers and watched a movie...a great way to end the day.

Here's to snow days on V-day every year!!

xoxo

{rooms with a view}

Thought I would share some beautiful rooms on such a dreary day. Isn't this bedroom so tranquil? Looove the floor in the second pic...so retro. The all white dining room is super soothing, and I love the botanical prints in this last one. Looking at photos like this give me so much inspiration for my own home!

{fancy}

I just made a banner for my etsy shop...whatcha think?? It cut off part of the top and bottom, but I'm pretty happy with it...now my shop is all fancy-shmancy! :)